Ventilating lid or cover for culinary articles.



No. 737,694. PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1903'.

E. L. BAUER. VENTILATING LID OR COVER FOR CULINARY ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ERVAN L. BAUER, OF WELLSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,694, datedSeptember 1, 1903.

Application filed May '7, 1903. Serial No. 156,051. (No model.) I

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERVAN L. BAUER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Wellsburg, in the county of Brooke and State of WestVirginia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inVentilating Lids or Covers for Culinary Articles, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to removable covers for pots, pans, dishes,milk-crooks, &c., and has for its object to provide a device having ascreen-protected ventilator to allow odors and vapors to escape from thevessel and admit pure air therein, while at the same time dust, dirt,insects, &c., will be kept out.

The construction and advantages of my in-' vention will fully appearhereinafter and by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a top plan view of the cover, showing the removable toppartly broken away; and Fig. 2, a central cross-section of the device.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar reference charactersindicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, A representsthe lid made, preferably, of sheet metal and pressed upward in thecenter, as shown at B, and having a hole 0 in its center, over which issecured by any suitable means a sheet of gauze D.

E represents a top having holes F in its depending flange G, said flangebeing adapted to fit around the edge of raised portion B.

H represents a handle.

It will be understood from the above description that the invention isadapted to rest on any vessel and may be used with or without the top E.Generally if the contents of the vessel are hot the top E is not useduntil after, they have cooled, when the top E may be placed in positionand sufficient ventilation will be secured through perforations F, whilethe top will more effectually exclude dust and dirt. It will be readilyunderstood that the device will exclude insects when top E is or is notin use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In a lid forculinary vessels, a plate, the center thereof pressed into a circularraised portion having a hole therein, a gauze fabric secured over saidhole, and a removable and replaceable top having a depending flange tofit the edge of said circular raised portion, said flange beingperforated above the line of the top of said raised portion,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereto aflix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

ERVAN L. BAUER.

Witnesses:

J. G. BOWMAN, CHAs. L. LAZEAR.

